Hi everyone Aaron here for Zollotech and this is the iphone 12 pro max and the samsung s21 ultra 5g
and i wanted to help you decide which would be best for you and so the first thing is the price
they do vary a little bit in price the iphone 12 pro max comes in at 1099 and goes up to 1 399 the
s21 ultra comes in at 1199 and goes up to 1 379 so there's a little bit of a difference at the low
end and a very closer comparison at the top end both of them have three storage options of 128 256
or 512 gigabytes neither of them have expandable storage this year so you have the same for both
now as far as the color availability well the iphone has four colors you have silver gold
graphite and this pacific blue which looks really nice and then also with the s21 ultra
you have a few different other color options as well so you have phantom black which i have here
as well as phantom silver and then three special order versions phantom titanium phantom navy and
phantom brown so you've got all of those options for the different phones now when it comes to the
overall build of the phones they're both slightly different the iphone 12 pro max
is stainless steel around the outside edge so you have a band around the whole outside of the phone
that's stainless steel very shiny and then you have glass front and back this is ceramic shield
from corning it should be four times less likely to shatter in the event that you drop the phone
it also seems to hold up fairly well to scratches so far on the s21 ultra it's constructed a little
bit differently you have aluminum around the outside edge with glass front and back but this
time we have gorilla glass victus now whether or not they're the same thing or very similar is hard
to say but corning seems to make both of them but it is aluminum instead of stainless steel around
the outside edge and even though it's aluminum it's actually a little bit heavier so the iphone
12 pro max comes in at 8.03 ounces or 228 grams where the s21 ultra is 229 grams or 8.07 ounces
for the millimeter wave version so they both have 5g with millimeter wave for example
now as far as the displays well there's a big difference here so if we flip them over
we'll unlock both and they both have slightly different unlocking methods you have face id with
the iphone 12 pro max which is nice and fast you just pick it up you also have a face recognition
option that's less secure on the s21 ultra but you have the under the display fingerprint sensor so
put your thumb down it's very fast it works really well and if you're wearing a mask it's much more
convenient than putting in a passcode for example so it's nice and fast this year much better than
previous years even better than the note 20 ultra in my experience so far now the displays like i
said are very different on the 12 pro max you have a 6.7 inch display it's a super retina xdr
2778 by 1 284 pixels with a density of 458 pixels per inch it supports hdr true tone has a regular
brightness of 800 nits and goes up to 1200 nits of brightness with hdr with the s21 ultra you've got
a 6.8 inch display 1440 by 3200 with 515 pixels per inch so it's a little bit more pixel dense
but it is slightly larger as well you also have a higher peak brightness of 1500 nits and it has a
120 hertz display that can vary all the way down to 10 hertz based on what you're doing
so that it can help save battery but it's super smooth due to that display i'll talk a little bit
more about that a little bit later and then it also supports an s pen if you want to use a pen
so for example if you have this accessory with the case and you get an s pen or you have an old
galaxy note you can just take the pen and then you can use it to scroll through do whatever
you'd like it does not have a slot in the phone for it you would need that external case you
don't get the air gestures that you do with the previous versions of the samsung note for example
now both of them have speakers at the top and the bottom but they're a little bit different so on
the top of the s21 ultra it's the small slit that you see right at the top of the display there's
this ever so slight slit at the top where the speaker is and that also helps with stereo sounds
when you're holding the phone this way you have speakers on the bottom and the top you also have
the same with the iphone so you have the speaker at the top and the bottom and then of course
your microphones and everything else you have usbc versus lightning as well so you have those options
and as far as the sound they're both pretty good let's go into youtube so you can listen to
one of my previous videos to see what it sounds like now both of these displays can display hdr
so if we go into the settings on the iphone you'll see we've got the option for 4k this is not an
hdr video and on the s21 ultra oddly you have up to 1440p that's just the options that show up
youtube can change this as they as they choose but we have similar resolutions you're not really
going to notice a difference there but you have a higher option on the iphone now let's go ahead
and take a listen to the speakers so i have the microphone pointing this way we'll listen to about
15 seconds of the audio on each this is a camera comparison between all the iphones this year
so those are the speakers now let's talk about the specs with the iphone 12 pro max you have
apple's a14 bionic which is just super fast it has six gigabytes of ram which doesn't sound like a
lot but it seems to handle it without a problem if you're going to music and multitasking going
back and forth into say youtube for example things don't seem to reload it works just fine
on the s21 ultra you have the new snapdragon 888 processor along with 12 or 16 gigs of ram so yes
you definitely have more ram with the phone but it doesn't seem to make much of a difference it just
seems like android can benefit from it by keeping apps open depending on what you do so if you go
into your app switcher here we'll go to youtube tap on this not only do you get things like split
screen for example or keep open which will keep the app open in the background and it will not
close it automatically because you have that ram to do that so you have extra ram for that and
because of that the s21 ultra is a productivity powerhouse so you've got a lot of different
options of course this is android related as well but if you want to go into youtube for example and
then multitask with say another app and split screen you can do that you can't do that on the
iphone so now we have two different things here so we have split screen two different options we can
move it around and so you have that advantage over the iphone and of course full customization with
the s21 being that it's android so with the iphone of course you can go into singular apps you can
use picture-in-picture on some apps like apple tv for example but not everything with the s21
ultra you definitely get more customization but that's just the nature of android the
experience on both is very fast and fluid with the display being 120 hertz it definitely makes
a difference with smoothness overall there's just an advantage with that it just is super smooth
with the s21 ultra but with the iphone you're going to get incredible speed either way so it
has amazing speed when it comes to opening apps something like the camera for example you're going
to see is going to be basically the same on both phones are so fast now that there's not as big of
a difference as there used to be and in general you can do about the same sort of thing and have
similar experiences other than the smoothness of the display on the s21 ultra with that 120 hertz
it definitely makes a difference it's just super smooth all the time not everyone will notice that
but people definitely will so whether it be you're opening an app like the camera or you're opening
an app that's like a social media app such as telegram i have my telegram channel linked below
you'll have that option and it will run super fast either way it doesn't really make a difference as
far as speed between the two with everyday tasks the iphone has the neural engine the s21 has an ai
engine sort of does the same thing apple's ahead in the processor as far as the speed overall when
you're doing many things but the majority of things you're doing such as instagram or
maybe you're just watching a youtube video will be about the same now like i said both experiences
should be pretty great but the cameras are a little bit different this year with the iphone
you have dolby vision hdr for video you have raw photos as you can see in the upper right of the
phone you also have 12-bit photos on the s21 ultra but 8k video with the s21 now whether or not the
video is better per se is hard to say as we'll have to compare that in just a moment but you do
have that option so there's so many different things between the phones as far as cameras
and there's very different specs for example the forward-facing camera on the iphone 12 pro max
is 12 megapixels and has an f 2.2 aperture but can record 4k 60 dolby vision hdr but with the
s21 ultra we have a 40 megapixel forward facing camera with an f 2.2 aperture that can also do 4k
so we have similar options in both on the back though it's very different on the iphone 12 pro
max they've decided to go with a three lens setup so what we have is triple 12 megapixel cameras
we have an ultra wide f 2.4 wide f 1.6 and telephoto f 2.2 with a 2.5 x optical zoom or 5x
punching into the sensor we also have lidar to help with things such as autofocus in darker
situations and of course we've got a flash as well on the s21 ultra we have more lenses in the iphone
and a slightly different setup so we have a 12 megapixel ultra wide f 2.2
108 megapixel wide f 1.8 a 10 megapixel telephoto f 2.4 so it's a 3x telephoto and then a periscope
zoom telephoto which is also 10 megapixels f 4.9 also when you get very close to an object
it can do macro as well now they've opted for laser autofocus similar to lidar and then of
course your flash as well now let's go ahead and take a look at what the cameras can do
in a comparison of both the photos and video so let's take a look at that now
so
this is the forward-facing camera of the iphone 12 pro max and the s21 ultra
and as you can see they look very different we have different lenses on them
and also the backgrounds look a little bit different on the iphone they look
a little bit more washed out at least in the screens that i'm seeing compared to the s21 ultra
also we have different microphones so you can hear the s21 ultra now
and now the iphone 12 pro max let me know which one you think sounds best in the comments below
now when it comes to the battery of both they're very different but the battery life is more
similar than you would think so with the 12 promax it has a 3 687 milliamp hour battery that's good
for about 20 hours of video playback the s21 ultra has a 5 000 milliamp hour battery and in
tests that i've seen online the s21 ultra does get the best battery life between these phones doing
similar tasks so for example if you were to put netflix on here or maybe just watch a video
streaming from the internet whether that be from youtube or anywhere else you'll probably
get better battery life with the s21 ultra however both of them can get up to about 10
hours of screen on time depending on what you're doing or 12 hours it really depends on how you're
using it so if you have the brightness really low maybe you're indoors it's night and you're using
instagram or you're using twitter or just social media and you're not doing anything intensive
they're going to last a very long time but either way they have great batteries in both so
if you're going to pick one for the best battery well technically the s21 has the best battery in
the test i've seen but they're so close that i really wouldn't pick either or just based on
battery alone now both of them have fast charging capability and the iphone 12 pro max this year has
the same 15 watt fast charging ability as the s21 ultra but you need apple's mag safe adapter
so you can just plug this in and it will fast charge up to 15 watts however if you use a
lightning connector you can charge it with a 20 watt adapter up to about 50 percent in 30
minutes now the s2121 ultra can also charge on any qi compatible charger but supports 15 watt
fast charging but also if you have the supported 25 watt brick if you bought that power adapter
you can charge the phone fully from zero to 100 in about an hour according to samsung this seems
to be true i've tested it it's very close to maybe an hour hour and ten minutes from zero
to 100 and you're good to go so it charges super fast compared to the iphone the iphone will take a
little bit longer than that but either way they last throughout the day without a problem now
both do have similar wi-fi specs as well 802.11 abgn and ac however the iphone has wi-fi 6 the
s21 ultra has the new wi-fi 6e the s21 ultra also has bluetooth 5.2 where the iphone has bluetooth
5.0 so that may make a difference to some people it shouldn't be too big of a difference though
and that brings me to which one should you choose if you have a lot of friends and family that use
iphones well imessage may be the best thing for you if you're really into customization
and you don't have any apple products well the s21 ultra may be best for you because
it offers a lot of customization and things that the iphone doesn't such as s pen support
or other things such as a different type of camera there's different advantages to each one if you're
heavily involved in the apple ecosystem such as you have a mac or say an ipad imessage works
nicely between the two find my and everything just integrates really nicely especially if you have
an apple watch for example however if you want a samsung galaxy watch you could go that route and
if you have windows you can integrate this nicely with that so it really comes down to which one
you use most battery life is very similar like i said and the overall experience is so good on
both phones you can't go wrong with either one it just comes down to personal preference as far
as that goes but let me know which one you chose and why in the comments below maybe you decided
to stick with an older phone and that works best for you let me know in the comments below
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